Public transportation: [1] Take the MARTA train to the Buckhead Station on the Red Line. Keep your rail ticket as a transfer pass.

Take the Peachtree Road exit out of Buckhead Station (not via the bridge) and go up the first set of stairs after exiting the fare gate. At street level is a bus stop where you transfer to southbound bus #110 Peachtree Street/"The Peach". Tell the bus driver that you’d like to exit at West Paces Ferry Road.

Exit the bus where Peachtree Street and Roswell Road fork together at Sardis Way. At that forked intersection, make a right on West Paces Ferry Road (toward Johnny Rockets) and proceed west two blocks. The Atlanta History Center is located on the left.

Collection Description

Sources for studing Atlanta and southern regional history and culture. The 42,000 square foot library possesses over 15,000 cubic feet of records, including 33,000 published volumes, more than 2,000 manuscript and photograph collections, and 7,800 rolls of microfilm.[4] Their collection includes African-American history and the Civil Rights movement; Atlanta politics; gay and lesbian historical studies; regional photography and the history of photography; folklore; transportation and economic development; the Beverly M. DuBose Jr. library on Civil War and military ordnance; and Thomas S. Dickey library of the Sons of the American Revolution genealogy collection; family and county histories from Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Alabama. They also have Georgia censuses and indexes, the Garrett Necrology (cemetery survey and obituary abstracts) 1855–1933, Fulton County estate records, and historic Atlanta newspapers.[5]

Georgia Archives, Morrow, is the best place to start family history research in Georgia.[8] Genealogies, county histories, newspapers, tax digests, private papers, church records, cemeteries, Bible records, municipal records, census, maps, land plats, photographs, Georgia Confederate service and pension records, colonial, headright & bounty land grants, land lottery, and Georgia county records.

Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, Mormon records. Many Georgia Archives microfilms are also available at branch FamilySearch Centers in local LDS churches, and described in their online FamilySearch Catalog.[9]

Dallas Public Central Library 111,700 volumes, 64,500 microfilms, 89,000 microfiche, and over 700 maps, marriage, probate, deed, and tax abstracts in book form, or microfilm of originals for some states, and online databases including Georgia and other Southern states.[10]

Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Central Library, large collection with good coverage of the southeast USA.[13] They have county histories, family histories, will indexes, deeds, military rosters, passenger lists, Atlanta city directories, Georgia censuses 1820-1930, local histories, and newspapers.[14]

University of Georgia Main Library, Athens, largest collection for early Georgia settlers. Also, they hold county histories, county records, family records, biographies and newspapers.</ref>

Washington Memorial Library, Macon, one of the best collections in Georgia for genealogy, African Americans, and local history.[16] Emphasis on the 13 colonies, American Revolution, and Great Britain.[17]